Compiling for mac from windows or linux

[Jimanzium]

How do I compile a version of my game for mac? I have tried to follow the instructions on the wiki but it wouldn't run when people tried it. If anyone could help I would be grateful.

I will add the .love as an atachment

[raidho36]

It should just work as simple as appending .love file to the executable binary, but you must use Mac LÖVE binaries to create a Mac binary of your game.

[Jimanzium]

Could you expand on what that means?

[FireZenk]

How on the wiki: http://love2d.org/wiki/Game_Distribution

[Jimanzium]

You might want to re-read my post. I tried following the instructions on the wiki but it didn't work. I think I messed up the info.plist part as I didn't really get it.

[Robin]

If you upload the game.app you made, we could take a look at it. (it is probably too big for an attachment, so you'll have to upload it somewhere else).

[Jimanzium]

Here: http://download1327.mediafire.com/rjd5c ... ac.app.zip

[chansu]

I'm having a similar problem (trying to package my game for OSX on a Windows machine). I should probably post a separate thread, but just wanted to clarify a few things before I did.

It should just work as simple as appending .love file to the executable binary, but you must use Mac LÖVE binaries to create a Mac binary of your game.

I didn't see anything about appending .love's to executables in the Mac section of the instructions, that was only mentioned as part of the Windows process. Was this comment just a stab in the dark, or are we missing a crucial step?

[slime]

It should just work as simple as appending .love file to the executable binary, but you must use Mac LÖVE binaries to create a Mac binary of your game.

I didn't see anything about appending .love's to executables in the Mac section of the instructions, that was only mentioned as part of the Windows process. Was this comment just a stab in the dark, or are we missing a crucial step?

In OS X you can either append the .love to the executable like with Windows, or put the .love in game.app/Contents/Resources/ and it will be automatically loaded just like if it was fused. Personally I think the latter method is much cleaner.

How do I compile a version of my game for mac? I have tried to follow the instructions on the wiki but it wouldn't run when people tried it. If anyone could help I would be grateful.

Is it the same problem described in this thread? viewtopic.php?f=4&t=49743#p126298

[Jimanzium]

Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: @executable_path/../Frameworks/mpg123.framework/mpg123
Referenced from: /Users/USER/Downloads/TSD.app/Contents/MacOS/love
Reason: no suitable image found. Did find:
/Users/XXXXX/Downloads/TSD.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/mpg123.framework/mpg123: file too short
/Users/XXXXX/Downloads/TSD.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/mpg123.framework/mpg123: file too short

The error message is from the same file but for a different reason.